Winter Soldiers, Selection #1: William Steig

William Steig, famed American cartoonist and illustrator, created this illustration for inclusion in the 1941 book, Winter Soldiers: The Story of a Conspiracy Against Schools. The book, published by the Committee for Defense of Public Education, tells the story of the Rapp-Coudert hearings and New York State’s efforts to rid its public schools and colleges of "subversive influences" and persons, particularly those with communist ties. A representative of those efforts can be seen in this image standing on the backs of schoolchildren.

Steig, William

Smith, Carol

1941

Copyrighted

English

Drawing

4972

Committee for Defense of Public Education

Smith, Carol